Ellard, Graham and Johnstone, Stephen (2007) Proposal, for an unmade film (set in the future). [Art/Design Item]
Type of Research: | Art/Design Item |
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Creators: | Ellard, Graham and Johnstone, Stephen |
Description: | 'Proposal, for an unmade film (set in the future)' is a 21 minute, 16mm film, funded by London Artists Video and Film Award and produced with the cooperation of the Fundacion César Manrique, Lanzarote. The film was shot on the island of Lanzarote in the volcanic landscape of the Timonfaya National Park and the ‘retro-futuristic’ architecture of artist César Manrique, using a Bolex clockwork camera. The film implies that it is a by-product of a pre-production process for a low budget science fiction film/architectural documentary, developed this far, abandoned, and only later discovered in an archive. The suggested narrative that emerges from this found footage is that of a visitor attempting to create a paradise on earth – a story influenced by Nick Roeg’s 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' and Augustin Espinosa’s creation myth poem about Sir Lancelot’s visit to Lanzarote – in which volcanic bubbles become time capsules, buildings become space ships and sculptural mobiles become radio antenna. The film’s structure provides the means for exploring film and architecture through a re-imagining of the interrelationships between idealism and architecture, as well as the means by which architectural space is produced or characterised in film. The film also documents a specific location and convergence of historical and/or narrative themes by developing a complex inter-woven text and sub-text. |
Official Website: | http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/southbank/film/7664 |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins Research Groups > Double Agents |
Date: | 10 July 2007 |
Funders: | Funded by Arts Council England, London with the support of Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network., Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London,, Goldsmiths, University of London |
Related Websites: | http://vimeo.com/32634909, http://ellardjohnstone.com |
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Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date BFI Southbank, London 10 July 2007 Oberhausen Film Festival 12 May 2008 St. Paul's Bow Common, London. 14 September 2008 Leeds International Film Festival. 16 November 2008 Stuttgart Filmwinter Film Festival, Germany. 18 January 2009 In Search of the Unknown, at the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam. 14 February 2009 24 April 2009 VIDEOEX Festival, Zurich 22 September 2009 Cinecity - Brighton Film Festival 12 November 2009 eme3: International Architecture Festival. CCCB/MACBA Barcelona. 22 October 2010 Amt Für Aufschwung, Rorschach, Switzerland 15 August 2012 Whitechapel Gallery, London 6 February 2015 |
Material/Media: | 16mm film, colour, optical sound |
Measurements or Duration of item: | 21 minutes |
Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2009 23:42 |
Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2015 18:36 |
Item ID: | 1451 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/1451 |
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